Jan Jelinek

A long-lost vinyl album is back in stock: for the last 20 years, Kosmischer Pitch by Jan Jelinek, originally released in 2005 on ~scape, existed only as a digital download. Right on time for the 20th anniversary the remastered album is available again on vinyl. The digital version includes two previously unreleased pieces from that period.

What the press said about Kosmischer Pitch back in 2005.

For Kosmischer Pitch, Jelinek draws from the obsessed-over rock produced by his German countrymen in the 1970s. Trance-inducing repetition is constantly modulated by variations that hover on the threshold of audibility. One of the more remarkable bodies of work in electronic music. Pitchfork

Like the cosmic compositions it delicately references, Kosmischer Pitch is proof that the higher and lower pleasures can triumphantly combine. - The Wire Magazine

The old Jelinek approach can also be heard on the new album - not least the Pitch in the title, which, as Martin Busser explains in the info sheet, refers specifically to Wild Pitch House, generally to manipulation exploitation of the sense of time - but there are striking differences: clear vintage synth, guitar and drum sounds, very subtle club references. - Groove

It's impossible to know how many layers of sound Jelinek has stacked up on any of these eight tracks, but each one seems to take on a shadowy, ghost-like life of its own as it morphs across time and space. Minimalist, yes, in a way, but thick as a wool rug. - AllAboutJazz

• 1 Universal Band Silhouette
• 2 Lemminge und Lurchen Inc.
• 3 Im Diskodickicht
• 4 Vibraphonspulen
• 5 Lithiummelodie 1
• 6 Planeten in Halbtrauer
• 7 Western Mimikry
• 8 Morphing Leadgitarre ruckwarts